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   Skate

   /skāt/

   

   noun

   • 1. an ice skate or roller skate: "everyone was on skates"
   • ▪ a device, typically with wheels on the underside, used to move a heavy or unwieldy object.

   verb

   • 1. move on ice skates or roller skates in a gliding fashion: "the boys were skating on the ice"
   • ▪ perform (a specified figure) on skates: "figure eights skated entirely on one foot"
   • ▪ ride on a skateboard.
   • 2. pass over or refer only fleetingly to (a subject or problem): "she seemed to skate over the next part of her story"
   • 3. make quick and easy progress through: "he admits he had expected to skate through the system"

   Word Origin mid 17th century (originally as the plural scates): from Dutch schaats (singular but interpreted as plural), from Old French eschasse ‘stilt’.

   Scrabble Points: 9

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